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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Child biting
Message-ID: <183@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 19:00:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 19:00:30 1985
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>I bit her back - not hard to hurt but
>it left a slight impression.

I hate to say this, but I was cured of biting.  My mother bit
me back "hard to hurt".  It was a great object lesson in how
it feels to be on the other end.  And it has a great logical 
justice about it.

I still remember it.  There was this sudden flash that other
people had feelings just like me...

I think I came out of this with no psychological scars.  (My
mother might disagree--she thinks I am weird because I am
against war, and I believe in love and equality and all that
liberal stuff...) But it's not the sort of thing I like to 
recommend, because someone is bound to scream "child abuse."
Luckily, the issue never came up with mine, or at least went
away without my resorting to violence.

It's possible that any of the methods you mention may work,
but it will just take longer.  Keep at it by whatever of those
ways seems most comfortable--don't give up, and don't change
methods.

-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     
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